Water-wheel bucket



(No Model.)

. P. VON LEIGHT.

WATER WHEEL BUCKET.

No 499,127. Patented June 6, 1893..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND VON LEIOHT, OF MIRABEL, CALIFORNIA.

WATER-WHEEL BUCAKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 499,127, dated June 6, 1893.

Application filed February 10, 1898- Serial No. 461,789. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, FERDINAND VoN LEIOI-IT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mirabel, Lake county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Water-Wheel Buckets; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of water wheels, in which the wheel or disk is mounted and rotates in a vertical plane, and has secured to its rim a series of buckets adapted to receive the impact of a stream of water under head or pressure.

My invention consists in the novel construction of the bucket, hereinafter fully described and specifically claimed.

The objects of my invention are, first, to utilize the full power of the water,both on impact and reaction and to discharge the water equally to all sides; and second, to connect the bucket with the rim in a simple and secure manner.

, Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of myinvention,Figure 1 is a plan view of my bucket. Fig. 2 is a diametrical section of same.

The bucket A has a concave face. The curves of the concavity may be of any character, but the best forms are oval or spherical, and preferably the latter. The bucket shown is, therefore, hemispherical. Though the back of the bucket may be of other forms, it is best made to conform to the face, whereby the whole bucket is of aconcavo-convex hemispherical shape. From the center of the face of the bucket rises a cone B. This cone receives the impact of the stream, and spreads the water all over the surface of the face. The impact is central, and the reaction is equal throughout the whole extent-of the face, while the discharge is also equal and unimpeded.

The whole power of the stream is thus utilized, nor is the reaction and discharge confined to special direction as in a bucket divided by a ridge which applies to a cross section only in one direction of a rectangular bucket, while my receiving and directing cone applies to any diametrical section of the hemispherical bucket.

To secure the bucket to the rim 0 of the wheel, there is formed upon one side thereof, the long lug a which passes beside one face of the rim and is secured thereto by a bolt or rivet a, and a short lug a which passes upon the opposite face of the rim and serves to steady the bucket. This forms a simple and secure connection which can be easily made and broken as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. .A water wheel bucket having a concave face with a central uprising cone, substantially as herein described.

2. A water wheel bucket having a concave hemispherical face wit-h an uprising cone, substantially as herein described.

3. A water wheel bucket having a curved face with conic projection and having a long lug at one side and a shorter lug at the other side for steadying the bucket.

4. The hemispherical water wheel bucket with its central uprising cone in its face, and the long and short lugs for securing it to the rim of the wheel, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FERDINAND VON LElOI-IT.

Witnesses:

A. HoUzE, J. A. WHITE. 

